By Virginia Brown
PERTH — The International Women's Day collective and West Australian-South African Solidarity have joined forces to tour Jabulile Matilda Ndlovu, a South African women's activist, trade unionist and writer. Meetings will be held
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Dreamer
Dream big.
If you don't have dreams
you have nothing.
Nothing at all.
So dream on.
And when you dream
— dream big.
Dream of a better world ...
Of a world without hunger,
of a world at peace.
Dream of freedom, justice
DAGURAGU — Aboriginal women and men built the cattle industry in Australia with little recognition, providing the cheap labour for the profits of pastoral leaseholders like Lord Vestey at Wave Hill. These leases were granted on Aboriginal people's
Power and Politics: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social OrderBy Noam ChomskyAllen & Unwin, 1996. 244 pp., $35R>Reviewed by Alex Bainbridge Avid followers of Chomsky's work and newcomers alike will not be disappointed with Power and Politics.
Picket against Telstra sell-off
BRISBANE — Members of the Community and Public Sector Union gathered in the mall on October 16 to protest the Howard government's plans to privatise Telstra and slash 23,000 jobs. The unionists picketed a Telstra
By Rob Heller
MELBOURNE — To mark UN World Food Day on October 16 a roving demonstration was held in the central business district here targeting McDonald's outlets. Around 60 activists handed out hundreds of leaflets and chanted slogans like,
By Jorge Andres
"Why should we, the taxpayer, pay for them to maintain their own language? They're coming out here to Australia. Our language is English. That's that", says Pauline Hanson. How long, I wonder, before those t-shirts gain popularity
Latino march demands rights and justice
Tens of thousands of Latinos marched through the streets of Washington, D.C. and rallied near the White House on October 12 to press their demands on Congress and the President. This was the first
By Marina Cameron
For the third consecutive month jobless figures rose by 13,000 in August to 8.8%. Despite a slight drop in September to 8.7%, the Coalition's modest target of 8% unemployment by the year 2000 is looking increasingly shaky.
By Ruth Ratcliffe
BRISBANE — In recent elections at the University of Queensland, Voice, the Whitlam Institute team, won control of the student union from the incumbent Liberal team. Other tickets included Kathy Newnam and Ruth Ratcliffe on the
By Terry Bartholomew
Despite widespread public funding stringency, the reduction of university operating grants and increases in the amounts that students are expected to pay for higher education, enrolments in most university undergraduate and
On September 30, the Sydney Morning Herald published an op-ed commentary on the Bougainville crisis by James Griffin, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of PNG. Griffin wrote that, "Nothing can now be achieved without action against the
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